The motivational and volitional sphere of transport police officers

Department of Sociology and Psychology, Baikal State University, 664003, Lenin street, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: smalahaeva@yandex.ru

Abstract

The hypothesis of study: there are statistically significant differences in the motivational and volitional sphere of transport police officers in command and civilian positions. This is due to the specifics of the professional activities of employees of command positions: the importance of goals, high requirements for stress resistance, personal reliability, discipline, endurance. This requires high motivation and strongwilled endurance. The study involved 44 employees of the East-Siberian Linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on transport aged 26 to 42 years, all men. Of these, 22 are employees who hold command positions, 22 are employees who hold civilian positions. The results of the study confirm the hypothesis. The motivational and volitional sphere of employees of command and civilian positions of the transport police has statistically significant differences: for citizens, comfort and good conditions are important for a sense of well-being at work. Whereas employees of command positions prefer to realize in the profession through the opportunity to be useful to people and help them.